Curtain-fixture.



No. 802,180. PATENTED OCT. 17, 1905. W. N. BEBOUT.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 18.1905.

a a mw h WILLIAM N. BEBOUT, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

I No. 802,180. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application filed May is, 1905. Serial No. 261,025.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. BEBOUT, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCurtain- Fixtures, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements incurtain-fixtures; and the invention has for its object to provide anovel fixture wherein means is employed for vertically adjustingcurtains or drapery carried by said fixtures.

Another object of this invention is to provide a novel attachment forwindow-frames wherein suitable brackets are employed'for supporting acurtain-pole and curtains, also a shade-roller, novel means beingemployed to vertically adjust the attachment upon the window-frame.

A further object of this invention is to provide an attachment forwindow-frames which will be extremely simple in construction, strong anddurable, comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, and highly efficientfor the purposes for which it may be used.

The invention consists in the novel construction, combination, andarrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described andthen specifically pointed out in the claims, and, referring to thedrawings accompanying this application, like numerals of referencedesignate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in whichFigure 1 is a front elevation of the top part of a window-frame,illustrating my improved attachment applied thereto. elevation view ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a spring-actuated wheelor drum used in connection with my improved attachment, and Fig. 4 is anenlarged detail side elevation view of a bracket employed in connectionwith my improved fixture.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a window frameconsisting of side frames 1 1 and a top or transverse frame 2. The topor transverse frame 2 is provided with a plate 3, or the frame 2 may beconstructed whereby it will extend outwardly beyond the side frames 1 1.The plate 3, which overhangs the window-frame, is adapted to support myimproved fixture. The side frames 1 1 are provided with angular brackets4 4, secured to the side frames by suitable screws Fig. 2 is a side.

5 5. The outwardly-extending portions of the brackets 4 4 are providedwith apertures 6 6, through which pass rods 7 7, extending upwardlythrough vertically-disposed openings 8 8, formed in the ends of theplate 3. The top surface of the plate 3 is provided with es.-cutcheon-plates 9 9, through which the screwthreaded ends 10 10 of therods 7 7 pass, and in order to retain the rods in a vertical positionrelative ,to the window-frame I provide the lower ends of the rods withknobs or heads 11 11 and secure nuts 12 12 upon the screwthreaded ends10 10 of the rods 7 7.

By referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings it will be observed that aset ofrods is provided upon each of the frames 1 1, and upon said rods aremounted plates 14 14, said plates carrying rearwardly-extending bossesor sleeves 15 15, through which the rods 7 7 pass. The plates 14 14 areconnected together by a transverse tie-rod 16, and connected to said rodadjacent to the plates 14 14 are chains 17 and 17, connected to doublesprocket wheels or drums 18 and 18', which are journaled upon a shaft19, mounted in brackets 20 20, carried by the plate 3 or frame 2.- Thedouble sprocket wheels or drums 18 and 18', journaled upon the shaft 19,are actuated by spirally-wound springs 21 21, the ends of said springsbeing connected to the shaft 19, as indicated at 22, and to the sprocketwheels or drums 18 and 18, as indicated at 23 23. By this constructionthe sprocket wheels or drums 18 and. 18 operate independently of oneanother; but I preferably make the springs 21 21 of each of thesprocket-wheels of a sufficient tension to normally hold the plates 1414 in horizontal alinement. The tension of the springs mounted withinthe sprocket wheels or drums is sufficient to assist in the elevation ofthe plates 14 14 upon the rods 7, and should the tie-rod 16 be pulleddown and quickly released the springs are adapted to pull the platesupwardly into engagement with the plate 3.

The sprocket wheels or drums are made of a sufficient diameter toaccommodate the chains 17 17 when the plates are at their highestelevation upon the rods 7 7.

The plates 14 14 are provided with outwardly-extending brackets 24 24,having hookshaped ends 25 25, which serve to support a curtain-pole.(Not shown.) The plates 14 14 are also provided with the conventionalform of pierced and slotted lugs 26 26 to accommodate a curtain-shaderoller.

From the foregoing it will be observed that I have devised a substantialfixture for window-frames capable of supporting large curtains andshade-rollers, the fixture being particularly applicable toWindow-frames of considerable width.

I do not care to confine myself to the length of the rods 7 7, as theycan be made to extend from the bottom of the Window-frame to the topthereof in order to facilitate the hanging of curtains andshade-rollers.

It will be noted that various changes may be made in the details ofconstruction without departing from the general spirit and scope of theinvention.

What I claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination with a window-frame, of the plate arranged in frontof the upper portion of the window-frame and extending outwardlytherefrom, brackets secured to the side frames of the window-frame, twoverticallydisposed rods sustained by each of said brackets, andextending in rear of said plate, plates slidably mounted upon said rods,brackets carried by said plates and adapted to support a curtain-poleand ashade-roller and two springactuated sprocket-wheels arranged abovesaid first named plate, chains carried by said sprocket-Wheels andconnected to the plates which are mounted on said rods, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination with a window-frame of two vertically-disposed rodsmounted on each side of the frame, and spaced in front of same,

- WILLIAM N. BEBOUT.

Witnesses:

J. VVooDs MCCORMICK, JEssE W. HEANY.

